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Stefan Haydn
"Seeing as there is a new attempt to completely erase my fediverse work from history, here's a brief timeline..."

2010 Brought DMs and groups to the fediverse. (Prior to this they did not federate).
2010 Brought the concepts of permission and consent to the fediverse.
2010 Brought directory services to the fediverse.
2010 Brought comment controls to the fediverse.
2010 Brought quoted posts to the fediverse.
2010 Brought circles/aspects to the fediverse. (Before Diaspora or Google+).
2010 Created single sign-on across decentralised fediverse nodes (providing fully decentralised access control)
2010 provided access controlled assets and services in the fediverse - including media
2010-2011 federated with all the things - including "connections" with RSS and email, Diaspora, Status.Net, and cross-posting to lots of open providers via plugins.
2011 Brought Facebook (unwillingly) into the fediverse. Shout-out to Tobias for helping with Twitter.
2011 Started work on fediverse nomadic identity after nearly half the known network suddenly vanished in the space of a week when some high profile large sites shut down with little or no warning and with no migration ability. Migration is half the solution - it is still subject to unannounced shutdowns.
2012 Created the Zot protocol to encrypt all fediverse communications over the wire and expose as little meta-data as possible, while fully supporting nomadic identity.
2012 Federated/connected the fediverse and WordPress (posts and comments in both directions).
2013 Turned all file storage into access controlled WebDAV nodes so you could upload private media through drag-drop from any device.
2014 Browser-to-browser encryption arrives in the fediverse. E2EE framework completed. We don't provide E2EE ourselves because we're not at the endpoint.
2015 Implemented dynamic groups. ("Send this post to male German connections only" or "only send to folks who are using the Diaspora protocol")  
2016 Provided (sanitised) inline SVG support over the fediverse, allowing quick doodles and drawings in posts/comments.
2016 Mastodon arrives in the fediverse and proceeds to embrace, extend, and extinguish all that came before.
2016 Private groups
2017 Demonstrated e-commerce in the fediverse.
2017 first ever demonstration of ActivityPub posts and comments federating (NextCloud made these claims, but used ActivityStreams and not actually ActivityPub).
2017 Mastodon converts to ActivityPub
2018 ActivityPub spec finalised.
2019 Removed completely from fediverse history through a re-definition of the word on wikipedia
2019 Re-implemented the Zot protocol to use ActivityStreams2 content, and turned magic-auth into Open WebAuth based on old, but still viable standards.
2021 demo of fediverse identity manager - aggregate and republish content from all your fediverse identities.
2022 Rejection of brands, marketing, and licenses after the EEE fiasco. Which fediverse brands own you?
2023-2024 Implementation of conversation containers over ActivityPub
2024-2025 Brought nomadic identity to ActivityPub and retired the Zot/Nomad protocol family.
2025 Removal of content by third-party spammers which leaked into the fediverse through a spam relay called "Mastodon" and that folks using said spam relay now worship as cultural icons

#mikemacgirvin #appreciation
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Homo Erectus (NSFW)

We watch them.
We jerk off to their exploits.
We play them at our dance clubs, sex clubs, bathhouses, and they set off our sex lives by making us horny as fuck.
We consume their bodies and sex acts like we do food.
They eat ass, suck cock, fuck, and cum all for our entertainment and sexual gratification.

What we often forget is that they are people just like you and me. We forget that they have loves, desires, expectations, heartaches, pain, and yes, ends, just like the rest of us. In a way they achieve immortality. They are on film, tape, or digital files. Beautiful and youthful, horny and ready to play at the click of a button.

But they do die. Sometimes naturally, sometimes accidentally, and sometimes we never find out because as a society we look down on them regardless of how much we enjoy their work.

I want to raise a glass today to all the men and women who have met their ends and left behind their work.

To all the porn stars who we will remember not as themselves, but as the voracious sex gods that turned us on.

And here's to you, the people who have made databases online so we can look them up and get to know them more as people than as stiff cocks and deep holes.

🍷 #nsfw #nsfwgay #pleaseboost #hot #pornstars #appreciation

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Jakub Steiner ⭐

Designers not raised on dinosaurs like bugzilla probably can't quite appreciate the joy of inline images in modern issue trackers like gitlab. Age coming back to me, but in the shower of negativity it's nice to reflect some of the nice things we got.

gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/

GitLabKasasa (#70) · Issues · Teams / Design / app-icon-requests · GitLab Project Mini Screenshot Description "Kasasa lets you...
#gnome#gitlab#infrastructure
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Georgiana Brummell

As someone who is totally blind, the Fediverse is the only place where I have ever been able to follow people such as photographers, artists, or even those who post pictures of their cats or the food they ate. The reason is that most of them use alt text. They take the time to describe the images that my screen reader can't recognise. Some write the descriptions themselves, and others use tools such as altbot. Some worry that their descriptions aren't good enough, especially when they are new at this. Let me assure you, not only are they good enough, they are extremely appreciated! If the rest of the world thought as you did, it would be a much better place. Don't hesitate to ask if you're unsure of something, but never think that we don't notice your effort.

#appreciation#accessibility#altbot
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Mariatta 🤦🏻‍♀️ :python:

We've sent out certificate of participation to all PyLadiesCon attendees, volunteers, and speakers.
The certificate is a small token of appreciation that doesn't take a lot to create, if you know how to code in Python.

If you run an event and also want to send out this kind of certificates to your attendees, check my blog post to learn how.

mariatta.ca/posts/create-send-

Mariatta · Generating (and Sending) Conference Certificates Using PythonPyLadiesCon Certificate of Attendance Not sure how common is this practice of giving out certificates to conference attendees. I’ve been attending mostly Python-related conferences in North America, and we don’t usually get any certificates here. However, when I went to Python Brasil in Manaus 2022, they gave me a certificate of attendance. And as a conference organizer, occasionally I’d receive request from a few attendees and volunteers about such certificate, saying that their employer or school requires it as proof of attendance.
#Python#PyLadies#PyLadiesCon
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Nicole Wolf

@susankayequinn

This shows how many superfluous things people consider important and how well we are persuaded to own certain things.

Now, we mainly pass on rubbish to our children because the durability of everything has become so poor. In return, we have spent our lives acquiring much more and creating huge amounts of (problem) waste. Appreciation would help on so many levels...

#buynothing#buyless#reuse
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Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺

I have a lot of cat pics in my mind, thanks to all of you who put alternative text descriptions. I Love you, and I hope you don't feel pressured to put them. Writing a text description should be fun, should be easy, and should be rewarding, because when writing it, you know blind people, visually impaired people, or people with very slow internet connections could read the text and enjoy the cuteness along with you. Let's not forget the dog friends, a lot of them too. Let's not forget the other media and types of images you all describe #Appreciation #Grateful #AltText #Accessibility #A11Y You get a lot of virus free, warm, comfortable virtual hugs, and universally global level love from me, as well as interactions. 🤗 😺 💙 PS: last but not the least important, the effort counts, always.

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Bloodaxe

I just wanted to make a post of gratitude and #Appreciation to the makers and maintainers of #Wine and #Lutris. Thanks to you, not only are almost all of my games playable on #Linux, but many of my older games are also accessible to me on my modern hardware 😃 Currently started playing The Longest Journey (Den Lengste Reisen) today, with Norwegian dialogue and voice acting from the oooold OG discs sold here in Norway.

#LinuxGaming#Norge#Norwegian
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Fi

I've taken a double dose of gabapentin, cocodamol has been taken, might even be a night for voltarol gel on my hip. I'm about to fill the hot water bottle and crawl off to bed.
High pain days and unexpected difficulties are absolutely exhausting and so hard to deal with. I do have a lot of good things though so I am trying to focus on those...like a freshly filled hot water bottle, a comfortable bed and a good book to read.

Massive thank you to everyone on here who has sent supportive words in my direction, they are very much appreciated and thank you for helping me get through today. Some people would say "oh its just social media, they don't actually care", maybe some people don't, but I genuinely believe there are a lot of very good, caring, amazing people on here and I appreciate every single one of them. For those of us with very limited lives, who struggle to get out and about in the real world, social media is an absolute lifeline. Being able to share our good times, our bad times, our random thoughts with people all over the world, being able to connect through a screen but feel genuine connection and part of the world, its special.

Thank you, much love is being sent from me to you, have a wonderful weekend everyone and be safe.

#ChronicPain#ChronicIllness#Appreciation
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